Street-car-driver s change-box



(No Model.)

J. G. HOLDEN.

. STREET GAR DRIVERS CHANGE BOX.

No. 306,252. Patented Oct. '7, 1884.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

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llsiiren Srnres arena @rricia JOHN GLIDDEN HOLDEN, OF DANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

STREET CAR DRlVERS CHANGE-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 306,252, dated October 7, 1884.

Application filed Apiil 24, 1884. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, JOHN GLIDDEN HOLDEN, of Danville, in the county of Vermilion and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved StreetOar-Drivers Change-Box, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to change-boxes for street-railway cars more particularly, the 0b ject being to provide a simple, inexpensive,

and convenient means for removing the changeenvelopes from the box.

The invention consists in floors hinged at the bottoms of the separate envelope-compartments, and having means for lifting the floors to carry the envelopes, end upward, in convenient position for grasping them.

The invention consists, also, in a special arrangement of the hinged floors in inclined positions, and in the particular construction and location of the frames or bails by which the floors are lifted, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved change-box shown open and illustrating the manner of removing one of the changecnvelopes, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the box, with the cover open and partly broken away.

The letter A indicates the change-box, and 15 its lid or cover, which is hinged along one side of the box, as at b, and has a springcatch, (I, held within two walls, 0 c, of the lid 13, so as to snap into the recess d of the front wall of the box to hold the cover closed. The spring 0 forces the end of the catch a into the recess (2, and the catch has a finger-bar, f, by which it may be released to open the lid. Any approved kind of catch may, however, be employed, and may be fitted to either a single or double walled lid.

The box A has two or more box-loops, g, fixed to it, and through which the strap 0 passes, so as to be buckled around the waist of the car-driver, to hold the box in front of him and slightly toward the left hand, and preferably so that the cover B shall open toward his body. The box A has partitions D dividing it into smaller boxes or compartments E, for holding separate piles of money, envelopes, or

packets G, the several envelopes of each pile containing money or change of like value, as is customary in boxes of this class.

At the bottom of each boX or compartment E, I hinge at h the floor or platform II, to which is fixed rigidly, near its outer end, the wire frame I, and so that space is afforded between the top cross-bar, t, of the frame and the outer wall of the box to admit the thumb or finger of the drivers hand, as in dotted lines in Fig. 2. apart sufficientl y to receive the pile G of envelopes between them. I prefer to hinge the floor H at Mo a corner-piece, J, set in the box, so that the floor shall incline downward from the hinge to carry the envelopes G bygravity toward the outer side of the box A and leave a space, j, behind the pile of envelopes, to permit them to be lifted easily by the rising floor, and without cramping or binding the box.

\Vhen the driver wishes to make change, he

opens the cover 13 of the box A, and then places his thumb under the bari of a frame, I, of one of the compartments, as in Fig. 2, and lifts the frame, and thereby the floor H and the pile G of envelopes thereon, bringing the envelopes end upward, as in Fig. 1, when the forefinger may separate one or more of the envelopes, as required, from the pile, and those so separated may be grasped by the thumb and forefinger and lifted from the box, while the remaining en- 8 5 velopes of the pile, with the floor II and frame I, drop back into the box.

The whole operation is easily and quickly performed with the right hand alone, leaving the other hand free to handle the reins for con trolling the horses drawing the car.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Iatent 1. A change-box constructed with hinged floors II in the bottoms of the envelope-com- 5 partments, and means, substantially as described, for raising said floors tocarry the en velopes end upward, substantially as shown and set forth.

2. A change-box constructed with hinged I(O floors H in the bottom of the envelope-compartments, and frames I, fixed to the floors,

The side bars, 1', of the frame I are spaced 65 about the length of the envelopes, and said floor inclining downward from its hinge, and said hinge being located to afford a space, j,

said frames consisting of side bars, 2" '13, to con- I fine the envelopes at their edges, and the crossbar 6, by which to lift the floor, substantially as shown and described.

3. A change-box constructed with hinged means for lifting the floor, substantially as floors H in the bottoms of the envelope-emu shown and described, partments, and said floors inclining downward T T when in lowered position, substantially as I JOHN GLIDDEL HOLDEL shown and described. I Witnesses:

4. The combination, with the envelope-con1- F. V. DOANE, partments of a change-box, of a floor, H, of JNo. B. SAMUEL.

behind the pile of envelopes, together with 15 

